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Mar.
2005
La
Tasha N. Nevada Diggs
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Writer,
vocalist, and Harlem denizen, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs explores
sound through
macaronic verse, language and electronic vocal processing. A fellow
of the Cave Canem
Workshop for African American Poets, Latasha has completed residencies
at Caldera Art
Space and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center as well as receiving
a Zora Neale Hurston
scholarship from Naropa Institute and New York Foundation for the Arts
fellowship.
Diggs
has authored two chap-books, Ichi-Ban: from the files of
negríta muñeca linda and Ni-ban:
Villa Misería, produced and wrote for the conceptual audio project,
Televisíon, and is the lead electronic vocalist for two bands,
the Yohimbe Brothers, fronted by Vernon Reid and DJ Logic and The Beat
Kids, fronted by Guillermo E. Brown.
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Tasha N. Nevada Diggs, yohimbe brothers, elctronica, poet,
performance artist, sound poems, macaronic verse, naropa |
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| pistology
(a macaronic verse ) |
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to performance of this work |
kyooryoku
na transmitter de cielo
blessed visor de imagen
captured
hoshano of hikari
dotekina kinescope
globalizing sounds unit modulation
fallacious
shizukesa
fukyu no meisaku! fukyu no meisaku! fukyu no meisaku!
anata wa absorb my peripherals
contrasting en medio real time
y
buffy
la matar de vampiro
azucarado reflection of stale tecnologia
suteru realism
my
gabriel blow horn de propaganda
fukyu no meisaku! fukyu no meisaku! fukyu no meisaku!
mediator of media
grocery bag stuffer of life’s
marketed
indulgences
yo reso para te
mi amplified padre
mi
prime time okaasan
watakushi no/closed captioned
espiritu santo
by broadcast…
you are my sagrada communion
you are my anti christ
In
the tradition of macaronic verse, the poem is written in three
languages, English, Japanese and Spanish. It reads:
Mighty transmitter of heaven/Blessed view finder/Captured radiation of radiance/Color
kinescope/ Globalizing sound unit-modulation/Fallacious peace/Immortal masterpiece/You
absorb my peripherals/ Contrasting between real time/And Buffy the vampire slayer/Sweet
reflection of stale technology/Giver of realism/My Gabriel blow-horn of propaganda/Immortal
masterpiece/Mediator of media/Grocery bag stuffer of life’s marketed indulgences/I
pray to you/My amplified father/My prime-time mother/My closed captioned Holy
Ghost/By broadcast/You are my holy communion/You are my anti Christ
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